The Delhi police today failed to get the custody of former Haryana minister Gopal Kanda's employee Aruna Chaddha to "confront" her with him in the Geetika Sharma suicide case with a local court rejecting its plea.
The police, meanwhile, is mulling the option of subjecting Kanda, the prime accused in the suicide of Geetika who was an employee in the MDLR group owned by him, to a brain mapping test since he is reported to be refusing to cooperate in the investigations.
As part of the continuing probe, the police raided Kanda's farm house at Gurgaon-Faridabad road, his Park Plaza hotel at Sushant Lok and his MDLR office at Sector 15 in Gurgaon.
Police remained at these places for about two hours and have reportedly seized some documents and soft copies from computers there.
A senior police official also said three hard disks at the MDLR office were missing and it appeared that somebody has removed them abruptly.
The Delhi police sought the custody of Aruna "to confront" her with Kanda during his questioning. Both Kanda and Aruna have been accused of abetting Geetika's suicide.
Metropolitan Magistrate Vipin Kharb said he was not satisfied with the application for Aruna's police custody for another three days and added that the police can file a fresh application for it.
Aruna, who had been remanded on August 16 to 14-day judicial custody, was produced before the court which sent her back to judicial custody for a day till tomorrow.
"The prosecution failed to show documents which could show that the accused need to be confronted with the documents recovered after the arrest of Kanda," the magistrate said.
Delhi Police sources said Kanda has been evasive during questioning and denied any involvement with 23-year-old Geetika.
When asked whether police will subject Kanda to brain mapping, Deputy Commissioner of Police (North-West) P Karunakaran said, "If required, we will do that. We will take him to all places where we feel probe is required."
Kanda was sent to seven-day police custody on August 18 following his surrender and subsequent arrest.
